What are the signs of a nervous breakdown?!


Question: What are the signs of a nervous breakdown!?
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The term actually refers to a wide range of experiences when someone has hit rock bottom!. There is no such thing in medical terms, and making a diagnosis based on such a flimsy term is near impossible!.


Severe depression: This is the most common type of breakdown, where someone develops severe depression over a few weeks, where they can't sleep, feel on edge, have negative thoughts about themselves, feel more and more hopeless and then one day just can't get out of bed!.
Collapse in social roles: Inability to keep doing day-to-day job and playing your usual part in family/ social life!.
Loss of sense of reality: When the person becomes delusional, 'has lost the plot'!. A psychotic breakdown, although this is not always indicative of schizophrenia!.

Warning signs of immobilising stress:
Physical: Diarrhoea, constipation, IBS, back pain, breathing problems, migraines, insomnia, low libido, a disrupted menstrual cycle!.

Emotional: Constant worrying, anxiety, feeling everything is out of your control and you are trapped!.

Behavioural: Mood swings, tantrums, constant fidgeting, withdrawal from normal life!.

Breakdowns are caused by the interaction of the internal and the external, yet there is always a trigger or catalyst!. Breakdowns are often associated with a major life event, such as a bereavement or a broken relationship!. Whether such life events cause a breakdown depends upon the individual's ability to cope with the situation!. Those who are more vulnerable at the time are therefore more at risk!.

It's not all bad - if you receive the right treatment a breakdown can be turned into a breakthrough!. If well managed it can enlighten the person as to what went wrong, and help them to come out the other side as a better person!. It can teach you about yourself and your coping strategies and help you deal better with stress and challenging situations in the future!.



Treatment
Medication and a coping strategy, either through group therapy or individual therapy!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Don't call it a nervous breakdown, that sounds so horrible!. An anxiety attack feels like your heart is beating out of your chest, could have chest pains, feel nauseas, very emotional and I always say "I think I am having a nervous breakdown!!!"Www@Answer-Health@Com

You lose touch with reality, stare vacantly ahead!. Feel no emotion or connection with other people!. It is very difficult to resume your life once you have a breakdown without psychiatric help!.!.

Edit - Erin O - A nervous breakdown and a panic/anxiety attack are two entirely separate things xWww@Answer-Health@Com

Almighty understands!. They possess an illness for everything!. You may stop to smoke a cigarette and they will possibly have a disorder name!.
Life sucks!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You talk to yourself and rock back and forth chatting shyteWww@Answer-Health@Com





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